PETE ROZELLE RUMORS & GOSSIP
Dawson to get Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award
Pro Football Hall of Famer Len Dawson is being honored again in Canton as this year's recipient of the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award.
The former Kansas City quarterback has served as a color commentator for the Chiefs Radio Network since 1982. He was an analyst for NBC from 1976-82. Dawson also hosted HBO's ''Inside the NFL'' from 1977-2001.
He was...
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June 28, 2012
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Stewart wins suit, earns NFL pension
Andrew Stewart earned a rare victory against the NFL pension plan this week as a federal judge ruled officials "abused their discretion" in denying the Cleveland Browns defensive lineman disability benefits.
US District Court Judge William Quarles Jr. ordered Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan -- a benefit run jointly by the NFL and NFL Players Association...
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June 20, 2012
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Texans' PR staff wins Pete Rozelle Award
The Houston Texans have won the Pete Rozelle Award for the best media relations department in the NFL.
Houston won the award from the Professional Football Writers of America for the third time in six years and fourth since 2004.
The staff is led by Kevin Cooper, and includes Evan Koch, Zac Emmons, Charles Hampton and Brett Maikowski. Cooper has been on the staff for all four Rozelle...
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June 20, 2012
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PFWA 2012 Pete Rozelle Award | Houston Texans
The Houston Texans public relations staff has been selected as the 2012 Pete Rozelle Award winners by the Professional Football Writers of America (PFWA).
The Texans, the 23rd Rozelle Award winners, earned the award for the third time in the past six seasons and the fourth time overall (2004, 2007, 2010, 2012), the most among NFL club public relations departments.
The Rozelle...
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June 20, 2012
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The NFL Draft in 1981
The NFL Draft was not always a three-day television overrated event, it was much simpler in 1981. The NFL Commissioner was Pete Rozelle and the draft was held at the Sheraton Hotel in New York City.
Check out the 1981 draft broadcast:
Top 5 draft picks of 1981:
1. New Orleans Saints - RB George Rogers
2. New York Giants - LB Lawrence Taylor
3. New York Jets - RB Freeman...
The NFL draft sure was different back in 1981 (VIDEO)
As we resume with day number three of the 2012 NFL Draft, it’s worth looking back on the humble beginnings of the event, to get some perspective on just how far things have come.
This awesome video of ESPN’s 1981 draft coverage does just that, showing us a loosely organized get together inside a hotel ballroom, struggling with technical difficulties … as opposed to the multi...
Recording reveals Richard Nixon’s anger over NFL blackouts
A recently unearthed recording from the National Archives reveals that President Richard Nixon was furious at NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle over the NFL’s blackout policy, which in the early 1970s did not allow for any game to be televised in the city where it was played, regardless of whether the game was sold out or…
Via Pro Football Talk
February 11, 2012
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AP Enterprise: NFL nixed Nixon bid on TV blackouts
The NFL, which is trying to maintain its TV blackout of home games that don't sell out, missed an opportunity 40 years ago to preserve an even more restrictive policy when it rebuffed an effort by President Richard Nixon to lift the hometown blackout just for playoff games.
On a previously unreported tape recording, now in the National Archives, Nixon told his attorney general...
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February 11, 2012
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Tim Tebow's Eight-Win Broncos Are in Playoffs, Fulfilling Pete Rozelle's Wild-Card Dreams
When the NFL expanded the playoffs in 1978, then-commissioner Pete Rozelle hoped it would increase the popularity of the league. What could be more popular than Tim Tebow taking snaps on the opening weekend? The NFL playoffs, which have since be expanded to 12 teams, have become must-watch entertainment for sports fans, but they have also been watered down.
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Al Davis dies at 82 years old
Oakland Raiders longtime owner Al Davis has died at the age of 82. He served as the team's head coach before becoming its owner. He also was commissioner of the AFL.
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